OpenAI · 1 day ago
Software Engineer, Ads Integrity
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$200K/yr - $370K/yr
6+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Software Engineer on Ads Integrity, you will work on foundational integrity problems across advertiser identity, ad content, placement, and landing-page safety, ensuring ads are shown responsibly in products like ChatGPT.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Design and build backend systems that ensure ads and advertisers meet safety, trust, and compliance standards
Develop mechanisms to verify advertiser identity (“know your customer”) and assess advertiser risk
Build and improve systems that evaluate ad content and landing pages for user safety and policy compliance
Help determine where and how ads are shown, ensuring placements are appropriate, contextual, and aligned with user trust—especially in conversational AI surfaces like ChatGPT
Partner cross-functionally with Core Ads, Integrity, and Personalization teams to balance growth goals with safety constraints
Contribute to ML and LLM-adjacent systems that support automated decision-making, classification, and risk detection
Shape technical direction, architecture, and best practices as the Ads Integrity organization scales
Qualification
Required
Have at least 6 years of professional software engineering experience
Have experience setting up and maintaining production backend services and data pipelines
Comfortable operating as a generalist across distributed systems, data pipelines, and applied ML integrations
Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed
Are self-directed and enjoy figuring out the best way to solve a particular problem
Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done
Care about AI Safety in production environments and have the expertise to build software systems that defend against abuse
Motivated by working on ads—not just growth, but the responsibility that comes with it
Experienced in trust, safety, integrity, fraud, abuse prevention, or risk-sensitive domains (ads experience is a strong plus)
Excited to work closely with product, policy, and other XFN partners to solve ambiguous, high-stakes problems
Able to take ownership, mentor others, and help set technical standards on a growing team
Preferred
Experience working with or training ML/LLM-powered systems for classification, moderation, or risk assessment
Familiarity with advertiser ecosystems, ad marketplaces, or ad delivery pipelines
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
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2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
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CEO & Co-Founder
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President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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